He would have made a great, great old man. Stargell's two-run homer won Game 7 against the Orioles. A Hall of Fame outfielder, the famed "Pops'' was co-MVP of the National League in 1979 and the emotional leader of the "We Are Family" Pirates, who won the World Series that year. I heard that news the minute the cab dropped me at PNC Park, the first time I'd ever been there. It was right then that we said, 'OK, you are a freak.'" Other baseball notes from April 9 Typical Bo, he said, 'Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, screw it.' He didn't get a new bat, and hit the next pitch over the center-field fence. It wasn't broken in half, but it was clearly cracked. "He hit a ball foul in the game, and broke his bat. "When he signed, they sent him to Memphis, where I was," Macfarlane said. Damnedest thing I've ever seen."īo broke bats over his knee. I'm sure our front office wasn't happy about this, we were all afraid of tearing a rotator cuff trying to cock a bow. And neither could anyone else on our team. I stood on top of the bow and, using both hands, tried to cock it, and I couldn't do it. He would show us how to shoot, but for him, it was like plucking a harp. "Bo was a big bow hunter," said catcher Mike Macfarlane, a former teammate. He muscled his way through a career that made teammates shake their heads in astonishment. In his first at-bat since having hip replacement surgery, Bo muscled a home run over the right-field fence. Perhaps Bo's most amazing feat - even greater than the night (I was there, I still can't believe what I saw) he ran up the fence at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore like a race car driving a ramped turn - came on this date in 1993 with the Chicago White Sox.
"I never went to the bathroom when he came up because I might miss something I'd never seen." "I never missed one of his at-bats," Kansas City Royals teammate George Brett said. He was exaggerating, but there is no exaggerating Bo. "I once saw him hit a ball 500 feet, run and catch it before it hit the ground, then threw it back to the plate in the air," scout Jimmy Stewart said.
So while we await its return, every day we'll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history.īo Jackson was one of the most amazing players in major league history at one point, he was perhaps the strongest and the fastest player in the game.
Tim Kurkjian's baseball fix: With a bow or a broken bat, Bo Jackson did things nobody had ever seen You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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